July 2011 Blog Posts (5)

A giant construction project managed by an Italian-Thai company has come across a number of major barricades in Karen State, according to Karen News on Tuesday. Villagers say they have not been compensated for the loss of their land and the Karen National Union has stopped it building a highway to Thailand.

The Thai industrial giant behind a controversial deep-sea port project in Burma (Myanmar) said that 10,000 people would have to leave their homes to make way for the development,…

The Kenyan government is positioning itself to reap from carbon trade. Carbon trade involves limiting the amount of carbon and other greenhouse gases that companies or countries can release into the atmosphere by providing economic gain.

Kenya is one of those countries in the world that is seriously grappling with water quality and quality, said Prof. Lucy Irungu the principal of college of biological and physical sciences, Chiromo campus, University of Nairobi, during the launch of a report by the Pan Africa Chemistry Network (PACN) titled "Africa's… Continue

Forecasts can play an invaluable role when used properly in helping humanitarian agencies and governments plan for and prevent disasters, according to the latest Climate and Society publication launched by the IRI and the American Red Cross last week in Washington D.C.

Climate and weather disasters, from the massive floods in Pakistan, Australia and Colombia, to the devastating…